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Fiction · Family saga

The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz
1957 · 1313 pages

A Cairo merchant rules his household as a tyrant and drinks his nights away with singers while his wife may not step outside. Over three generations, revolution and war reach inside that house.

★ 7.8